Best sky & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.”

Thinking Way Life Sometimes Use Pain Beautiful Joy Fall Sound Water Prayer Silence Sky Praying Happenings Very Good Crowds Odd Over You Fourth Floats Rockets July Very Beautiful

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.”

Thinking Men Earth Water Sky Fool Creatures Paris Japan Swim Rome Creeps Iceland

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.”

People Thinking World Looks Night Sky Buddhism Eternity Senses Contact Dimensions Other Worlds Oblivious

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.”

Thinking Moments Bigs Remember Universe Dark Sky Chaos

Author:St. Vincent

“Of course there are people who think of 'heaven' as a kind of pie-in-the-sky dream of an afterlife to make the thought of dying less awful. No doubt that's a problem as old as the human race.”

People Thinking Humans Kind Problem Dream Courses Heaven Race Doubt Sky Dying Awful Human Race No Doubt Afterlife Pie

Author:N. T. Wright

“I’ve always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking ‘what if’ but the ones who look to the sky and say ‘why can’t I shoot for the moon?’”

Ifs Thinking Looks Sky Moon Waste Spots What If Dreamer Shoot For The Moon Thinking What If

Author:Richard Branson

“And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.”

Thinking Laughing Sky

Author:Ally Condie

“Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.”

Thinking World Eye Space Views Vision Sky Infinite Seclusion Vantage Point Infinite Space

Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities, and you really have an America that is back on its feet, a comfortable nation to live in again. I really think we're gonna have to reassess what constitutes a hero.”

People Thinking Knows Long America Left Nations Community Responsibility Wonder Know How Feet Sky Hero Comfortable Red Giants Long Ago Statues Framed Oregon Yesteryear

Author:Tom McCall

“I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes America Powerful Attention Gone Sky Masters Ought Authority Bird Bills Congress Symbols Range Ran Soar Eagles Herds Surveys Selected Buffalo

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.”

“When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.”

Thinking Should Mind Whole Past Support Clear Sky Building One Day Foundation Structure Ruins Palaces Dharma Builder

Author:Christmas Humphreys

“Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.”

Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

“Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?”

Thinking Dies Sky

Author:Alexander Pope

“I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.”

People Thinking Wells Looks Doe Made Seems Night Universe Interest Careers Sky Subjects Physics Spots Mysterious Teenager Look Up Over It Elsewhere Teens Get Over Cosmology

Author:Paul Davies

“I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned up without the federal government needing to be involved. I think we would have been much better served from the start if people would have better understood the principles of private property.”

People Ifs Thinking Has Beens Whole Government Cities Principles Sun Sky Grew Involved Grew Up Understood Property Federal Government Noon Private Property Pittsburgh

Author:Ron Paul

“I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always looking for some great epiphany from the skies. They never stop to consider the fact which human beings find hardest to recognize: "Maybe I'm not worthy of an epiphany.”

People Thinking Humans Facts Human Beings Sky Offers Expectations Worthy Hardest Unreasonable Epiphany Not Worthy

Book:Conversations with Robertson Davies

Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies

“Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Guy Wonder Mystery Sky Atheist Awe If You Believe

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.”

People Thinking Believe Wells Stills Enough Earth Water Sky Theory Devil Thirds Holes Dimensions Flats Caves Accommodate

Author:Peter J. Carroll

“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.”

Thinking Soul Joy Night Stars Attention Clear Greater Sky Disappear

Author:Simone Weil

“The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.”

Thinking Knows Men May Real Soul Earth Sea Sky Achievement Servant Heroism Backsides

Book:The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

“Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.”

People Ifs Thinking Happens Would Be Fall President Happened Sky Tomorrow Limits Constitution Data Rely Collections Nsa Warrants

Author:Rand Paul

“Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.”

Thinking Humans Stills God Use Shows Problem Purpose Peace Water Perfect Vision Sky Divine Pool Restless Disturbed Receptive Overhead Human Thought Personal Problems

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“I think with Sky and BBC Three and Channel 4, there are some great television platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. Its like rock'n'roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.”

People Thinking Country Three Sky Rocks Movement Television Findings Mediums Britain Coming Out Rock N Roll Platforms Phenomenal Funny People

Author:Brendan Coyle

“A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around. There's this only because there's that; if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down. Think of it, boy. We find ourselves only by looking what we're not. You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Looks Boys Feet Sky Relation Look Up Touched Feet On The Ground

Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.”

Thinking World Kind Art Play Games Chance History Sky Mathematics Idle Signatures Signing

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.”

Thinking Language Sky Blue Dishes Multitudes Cuisine Dialect

Author:Ferran Adria

“The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.”

“Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was ten I told a stinking lie That got a black boy whipped.”

Thinking Littles Past Lying Black Christ Boys Sky Love You Ten Guilt Rings Christmas Black Boy

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years old. I remember thinking, This is the most beautiful song I will ever hear. And that remains true for me to this day. His music is the sole reason I wanted to be on Broadway. I wanted to sing music that transports us to the most important place one can travel, our hearts.”

Thinking Years Firsts Heart Important Reason Play Wanted Beautiful Remember Song Sky Music Is Remains Piano This Day Sole Broadway Transport

Author:Laura Benanti

“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.”

Thinking Want Night Forget Cities Wonder Pieces Sky Information Scary Stranger Warm Tiny Amiable Creeks Time Of Day

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz

“You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask the question, well how many worlds are we talking about? Well do the math, there are about 100 billion galaxies that are in the visible universe and each galaxy in turn contains about 100 billion stars, you multiply and you get about ten billion trillion stars. Well I think it is the height of arrogance to believe that we are alone in the universe, my attitude is that the universe is teaming, teaming with different kinds of life forms”

“Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.”

Thinking World Sky This World Lovers Wander Dogma Transparent Heresy

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue...and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up...Don't you think that must mean something?”

Thinking Mean White Walks Forever Sky Blue Stairs Marble Blue Sky

Author:Edie Sedgwick

“I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.”

Ifs Thinking Moving Levels Sky Blue Flight Fighter Climbs Aviation Pilots Bolts Basements Playgrounds Ifs And Vaults Fighter Pilot

Author:Robin Olds

“That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But it does not require a grant from the National Science Foundation to learn the answer. The North Star is not even in the top 40 in the night sky. It's the 49th brightest star. Rather dull and boring by most measures.”

People Thinking Doe Night Stars Answers Sky Foundation Boring Dull Grants Night Sky North Star Brightest Star

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be up in that sky. I want to be flying through the clouds and be living in that environment." So I think if I had a dragon, I would spend most of my time up in the air all over the place and taking in this beautiful planet.”

Ifs Thinking Want Beautiful Environment Air Sky Planets Train Clouds Flying My Time Dragons Up In The Air

Author:Gerard Butler

“I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.”

Thinking Believe Stories Use Sky Function Having Fun Legends Diamond Sane Urban Urban Legends

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I don`t understand a belief that there is an invisible being in the sky who watches over us all the time and keeps score and who throws you in a burning pit. I think that's very limiting, very antihuman. It's the way they devised for helping to control people because if they can make you believe in an invisible man who's going to hurt you later, they can make you believe anything!”

People Ifs Thinking Men Way Believe Helping Belief Hurt Watches Sky Invisible Burning Score Pits

Author:George Carlin

“I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.”

Thinking Knows Children Important Facts Lasts Dies Sky Dying Our Children Refuse Your Children Serenity Last Words Ceremony

Author:Christian Boltanski

“On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.”

Thinking Humans Earth Race Gone Seeing Sky Lifetime Species Scales Evolve Islands Dirt Unbelievable Emphasis Fling Brevity Tropical Geologist Swiftness Geological Time Tropical Islands

Author:John McPhee

“Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.”

Thinking Knows Love Mind Persons Important Simple Sky Special Wind Blue Clouds Storm Occasions Gentle Fascinating Horizon Pale Simple Things Blue Sky Reggae Every Occasion Storm Clouds

Author:Bob Marley

“'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.”

Ifs Thinking Should I Can Philosophy Helping Action Young Brain Sky Atheism Strange Concern Puberty

Author:Lord Byron

“I don't know - I feel like someone would think of me, or anyone in my family, as unappreciative of a moment, and I've really learned to appreciate a moment. I take things in a lot. I'm kind of weird like that. I like to go outside at night by myself and look at the sky and just appreciate it. I'm not that big of a weirdo, but - occasionally.”

Thinking Knows Feels Looks Kind Moments Bigs Night Sky Appreciate My Family Think Of Me Weirdo

Author:Kendall Jenner

“I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.”

Thinking Soul Left Sky Reader Exercise Invisible Immortal Disposition Daddy Santa Baskets Santa Claus Immortal Soul

Author:Charles Stross

“At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.”

Thinking Knows World Heart Home Eye Earth Half Break Heard Sky Grew Band Grew Up Hundred Blue Glances Exquisite Relentless Break Your Heart Bombay

Book:Contact

Source: Contact

“Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.”

“I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.”

Thinking Way Light Political Pleasure Silence Sky Color Storm Bridges Streams Tails

Author:Ben Lerner

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